Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 1996, 1:47 PM EDT for Darke County, Mercer County, Shelby County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1996, 1:47 PM EDT (17:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Darke County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Shelby County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 10, 9:35 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 9:35 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 934 AM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 KILN SOUNDING SUPPORTS HI TEMPS IN THE MID 80S WITH A FEW CLOUDS AROUND. MODIFYING THE SOUNDING GIVES MODERATE INSTABILITY FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS. MODELS FCST COLD FNT TO PUSH INTO NWRN OH AROUND 00Z SAT AND SOUTH OF OHIO RIVER BY 12Z SAT. FCST LOOKS GOOD WITH BEST CHC OF RW/TRW OVR LIMA AREA TAPERING OFF TO THE SOUTH AND EAST. WL HAVE TO WATCH LINE OF TRW HEADING INTO CNTRL IN. LOOKS LIKE IT WL MOVE INTO AREAS THAT HAVE CHC IN PM BUT ZONES WITHOUT PRECIP WL HAVE TO BE WATCHED SINCE AREAS OF STORMS SHOULD PROGRESS FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST WITH EACH BATCH. WILKINSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 1:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Allen, Auglaize, Hardin | 4 hr |
| May 10, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Allen, Auglaize, Hardin | 34 min |
| May 10, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 60 min |
| May 10, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami, Montgomery | 40 min |
| May 10, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene, Warren | 45 min |
| May 10, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 45 min |
| May 10, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark | 45 min |
| May 10, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Madison | 45 min |
| May 10, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 49 min |
| May 10, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 38 min |
| May 10, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 45 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.